Question

In most colleges and universities the examination is used as a chief means of deciding whether a student succeeds or fails in mastering a particular subject. Although it does the job quite efficiently,  1.  side effects are also enormous.

To begin  2.  , examinations lower the standards of teaching. Since teachers are often judged 3. examination results, they are reduced to training their students in exam techniques. No subjects can be taught successfully merely through being approached with intent to take examinations. In addition, the most undesirable effect is  4.  examinations encourage bad study habits. As 5.  examination score is the only criterion for his academic performance, a student is driven to memorize mechanically rather  6.   to think creatively.

In fact, few 7.  us admit that examinations can contribute anything really important to the students’ academic development. If that is the case,  8.  cannot we make a change and devise something more efficient and reliable than examinations?

Answer

1.its

2.with

3.by/from

4.that

5.the

6.than

7.of

8.why

【解析】

试题分析：考试是衡量一个学生成败的重要手段。但是它也有缺点。1. 考试降低教学的标准；2. 考试鼓励不良的学习习惯；事实上，考试并没有有助于学生的学业进步，那为什么不进行改革来代替它呢？

1.its。

2.to begin with。

3.judge...by/from根据......来判断。

4.最不可取的是考试鼓励不良的学习习惯。is 后是that引导的表语从句，that 在从句中只起到连接作用。

5.因为考试分数是衡量一个学生学习成绩的唯一标准，这里用the 表特指。

6.学生被迫死记硬背而不是创造性地思考。rather than而不是。

7.事实上，没有几个人承认考试能对学生的学业发展的贡献什么重要的东西。few of us没有几个人。

8.如果是这样，我们为什么不能进行更改并制定比考试更有效和可靠的东西呢？why为什么。

考点：社会类短文阅读。